Originally Posted by freshstart57

SoberKnitter, I think you articulated this very well. What you described is a much larger aspect of a powerful mental health tool, and AVRT is only a tiny, specific instance of it. I am referring to mindfulness. Mindfulness is a state of active, open attention on the present. When we are mindful, we observe our thoughts and feelings from a distance, without judging them good or bad, just as the beast exists outside of our self. Our thoughts just are.

7 ASPECTS OF MINDFULNESS

1. NON-JUDGING becoming an impartial witness to your own experience.

2. PATIENCE

3. BEGINNER’S MIND willingness to see everything as if for the first time.

4. TRUST – in yourself

5. NON-STRIVING by doing nothing, all is done.

6. ACCEPTANCE seeing things as they actually are in the present.

7. LETTING GO

From a workshop with Jon Kabat-Zinn